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I consider myself a resident tourist in London, meaning that I am a resident here, but also a tourist. But as we have friends and family come to visit, I find myself playing tour guide, which is a great excuse for me to get out and do things I haven’t done yet. Here is my suggested list for everyone visiting us in London, which I’m sure I will continue to update over time.

Air Experience: As well as helicopter flights and flying lessons, this company can take you up in a two-person vintage Tiger Moth biplane from locations around London (£169 for 25 minutes). Air Experience (08704 299 325)

Flying Presents: Operating from Stapleford Flight Centre in Essex, Flying Presents have a range of pleasure tours, but the more adventurous might want to try an acrobatic flight in a Firefly plane (£77 for 20 minutes) or a flying lesson in a Cessna 152 (£135 for one hour). Flying Presents (01708 688 380

Headcorn Aerodrome: From this base in Ashford, Kent, you can take a range of different length aeroplane flights from £62 for 20 minutes to £186 for one hour. They also offer flight lessons, aerobatic flights and balloon trips. Headcorn Aerodrome (01622 891 158).

Red Letter Days: This gifts company offers a range of airborne options. A 30-minute helicopter tour of London costs £149, a biplane tour for one and a quarter hours costs £225, and a deluxe champagne flight for two will set you back £299. Red Letter Days (0845 640 8000).

Museums

The National Gallery is open until 9pm on Wednesday nights and has a great bar overlooking Trafalgar Square. Go along and enjoy the new ‘Americans in Paris: 1860-1900’ exhibition then get tipsy discussing it. The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, WC2 / 020 7747 2885

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We saw this when Michael and Trish were in town, but I forgot to mention it. If you get the chance I highly suggest it, or at least if you like some good comedy. It was funny as hell and wasn’t the puppet show I expected. Aaron and Rachel are going to see it Wednesday night and since they just graduated from college, I wonder what they will think.

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Windows Live Spaces has a cool feature where you can send photos to a photo album via e-mail. When I walk around London, usually with Milo, I always have my cell phone with me. It has a mediocre camera, but it does make it easy for me to send photos to my photo album called Random London Photos, which I keep on the right-hand side of my site. So if you are curious to see what I see when meandering around, just check out my Random London photo album.

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This is sorta funny. There are commercials running in the UK for Volvic’s bottled water. They now have a blog for the characters in the commercial. I like Tyrannosaurus Alan, but here is a photo of Volcano George.

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This morning Cullen picked me up, we tossed our bikes in the back of his car, and I had my first mountain bike ride in the UK. We went to the Bracknell forest, which has a lot of logging roads, but it had good single tracks too. Some even had banked turns, which I had never experienced in Washington or Colorado mt. biking. We did have to pay £1.50 for permits, which was a new experience for me. I owe Cullen a pint for that one.